Barbara Kingsolver:
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Emily Dickinson:
"Hope" is the thing with feathers - /That perches in the soul - /And sings the tune without the words - /And never stops at all.

Gloria Steinem:
Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Mignon McLaughlin:
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Nan Shin:
We all hope for a - must I say the word - recipe, we all believe, however much we know we shouldn't, that maybe somebody's got that recipe and can show us how not to be sick, suffer and die.

Pearl S. Buck:
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Sophia Lee:
Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Vita Sackville-West:
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.

Colette:
Hope costs nothing.

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